December 26, 2024
Tech News
Disney Plus and Hulu have merged their streaming services, offering a variety of new shows in 2024. Highlights include “Agatha All Along,” a continuation of “WandaVision,” the coming-of-age “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” and the historical drama “Shōgun.” Other notable series are “The Acolyte,” “We Were the Lucky Ones,” and “X-Men ’97,” along with Marvel’s first TV-MA series “Echo.” The list also features the return of “Doctor Who” and the acclaimed series “The Bear.”
AMD is set to showcase its next-gen GPU at CES 2025, competing against Nvidia’s anticipated RTX 5000 announcement. The press conference will take place on January 6, 2025, and will feature discussions on AMD’s advancements in high-performance computing and AI products.
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has secured $6 billion in a Series C funding round, bringing its total valuation to approximately $50 billion. The funding will be used to scale AI infrastructure and develop advanced AI models. xAI’s flagship product, Grok, is integrated into X (formerly Twitter), offering unique capabilities such as real-time query handling, image understanding, and integration with social media platforms, aiming to compete with other leading AI systems.
As the tech industry looks to 2025, key challenges include talent acquisition, cybersecurity, and the integration of legacy systems with new technologies. Experts emphasize the importance of innovation, resilience, and effective data governance to navigate the evolving landscape, particularly in AI and cloud computing. Companies are urged to modernize their IT infrastructure to remain competitive and responsive to market changes.
Tech Explained
GPU – Graphics Processing Unit is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.
AI – Artificial Intelligence refers to the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems, to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation.
High-performance computing – High-performance computing refers to the use of supercomputers and parallel processing techniques to solve complex computational problems quickly and efficiently.
Data governance – Data governance is a set of processes that ensures data is managed effectively and securely throughout the organization, addressing data quality, data management, data security, and compliance with regulations.
Cloud computing – Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services, including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence, over the internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
